Saturday, Sept. 28th. The Overlook-Catalina Island. 1:30pm-3:30pm

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On the Clock

Saturday, Sept. 28th. The Overlook-Catalina Island. 11:30am-1:30pm

When Sofia gets her first period, Lucas sets out to secure the feminine products she needs, confronting many harsh realities along the way. ‘On the Clock’ is a kinetic and intimate portrayal of two siblings coming of age in EAST LA.

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Our Home Here

Saturday, Sept. 28th. The Overlook-Catalina Island. 11:30am-1:30pm

Parallel stories of broken relationships between parents and their children striving for the American Dream all revolving around one explosive night at a fast food joint.

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Party People

Wednesday, Sept. 25th. Queen Mary-Queen's Salon(Long Beach) 6pm-8pm

Anna hates parties but loves her boyfriend so she’ll survive this one for him. Maybe.

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Piggy Bank Proposition

Saturday, Sept. 28th. City Hall- Catalina Island. 12pm-2pm

A precocious little girl strikes up a friendship with the hitman she propositions to kill her stepfather.

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Running Shadow

Saturday, Sept. 28th. The Overlook-Catalina Island. 1:30pm-3:30pm

A young Lakota woman who must battle her grief over her beloved sister’s suicide and the burden of her father’s dreams to pursue competitive running on her own terms.

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Still James

Wednesday, Sept. 25th. Queen Mary-Queen's Salon(Long Beach) 6pm-8pm

Through a mundane and depressing life, James, a young twenty-something, marches along, monotonously as a ticking clock. We find, however, through extreme circumstance, that James seems to make time stand still.

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Sucker

Friday, Sept 27th. The Overlook-Catalina Island. 11:30am-1:30pm

A boy becomes a man by becoming a baby.

A dark comedy turning the myth of the red-blooded American male on its head while exploring an unexpected connection between two strangers.

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The American Ambassador

Wednesday, Sept. 25th. Queen Mary-Queen's Salon(Long Beach) 6pm-8pm

U.S. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau risks his job and his reputation by leaking memos to the New York Times and becoming the first whistleblower of the Armenian Genocide.

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The Reservoir

Saturday, Sept. 28th. The Overlook-Catalina Island. 1:30pm-3:30pm

Two best friends are approached by a washed up rock manager to play as his opening act on a cross-country tour, days before one of them is set to start college.

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The Way Home

Saturday, Sept. 28th. City Hall- Catalina Island. 12pm-2pm

Frustrated by having to work at his mother’s corner store on a Saturday, 18-year-old Jimmy seizes an opportunity to prove himself to a Chinatown hooligan. 30-year-old Haiyang follows a Coyote through the US-Mexican border when his younger brother, Bin, starts to fall ill. As Jimmy and Haiyang venture toward their own goals, it becomes clear that there is a very high price to pay.

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El Niño

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Ana, an Argentinian migrant living in Australia, drives her teenage son through the countryside to meet his father for the first time. After breaking down in the middle of nowhere, they hitchhike the rest of the way to the city, where Ana makes a decision that will alter the course of both her and her sons’ lives forever.

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Girls Don't Fart

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God Bless the Cook

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Roslyn Spence, a Cordon Bleu-trained chef, introduces her greatest mentor and challenge: her mother. At 94 years old, Edith Bell is still cooking, dancing, and sharing stories of when she cooked for Hollywood’s biggest stars. Put the two in the kitchen together, and sparks fly between their big personalities and different life experiences.

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Hazel

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College freshman Hazel Grace has always loved two things: parties and getting drunk. Which is pretty normal for a typical college freshman. But then one party, something happens and somehow she’s transported back to the party, unable to get out, and unable to remember what really happened that night.

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Jack and Anna

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“Jack and Anna” is an MFA thesis film based on true events that happened in the early 1900s in Colorado. It tells a story of a young couple who live a happy life on their farm when suddenly a man from the past reveals Jack’s biggest secret – that he is, in fact, a woman named Helen Hilsher. After that Helen is put on trial for cross-dressing and same-sex marriage.

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Kindling

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Return To Sender

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A young French postman, nostalgic for the days of hand-written letters, roams the dusty and lonely roads of a small American desert town on his bicycle. On one of his his morning runs, the hopeless romantic stumbles upon a new neighbor, a discrete but mindful girl.